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Like

Definition: Like

Like

Adjective

1. Resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality".

2. Equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number".

3. Having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste".

4. Conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year".

Verb

1. Prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?" "Would you like to come along to the movies?".

2. Find enjoyable or agreeable; "I like jogging"; "She likes to read Russian novels".

3. Be fond of; "I like my nephews".

4. Feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard; "How did you like the President's speech last night?".

5. Want to have; "I'd like a beer now!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "like" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Like

DomainDefinition

Tips from 1870

Usage: Love, Like. We may love our parents, our children, our country, the truth; and we may like roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "I love cherries," "I adore strawberries," are school-girl expressions that should be avoided. Love is an emotion of the heart, and not of the palate.
Usage: Like, As. Avoid the use of like in the sense of as. "He thinks just as (not like) his father does." That Anthony Trollope, Hugh Conway and other writers are chargeable with this offence does not justify the use of like for as, but rather proves the need of constant vigilance in order to avoid such errors. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Like

Synonyms: alike(p) (adj), comparable (adj), corresponding (adj), equal (adj), equivalent (adj), same (adj), similar (adj), care (v), wish (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: unalike (adj), unlike (adj), dislike (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Like

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Approbation

Do justice to, appreciate; honor, hold in esteem, look up to, admire; like; be in favor of, wish Godspeed; hail, hail with satisfaction.

Desire

Care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer; (choose).

Love

Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.

Pleasure

Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.

Relation

In the same category; like; relevant; (apt); applicable, equiparant.

Savoriness

Relish, like, smack the lips.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Like

English words defined with "like": Anything likefeel likeHad likeLike blazes, like crazy, Like figures, like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thunder, look likeSuch like. (references)
Specialty definitions using "like": Drink like a FishFeel likelike kicking dead whales down the beach, like nailing jelly to a tree, like thisNothing likepig, run like aSleep like a TopWater Tasting like Wine, Write Like an Angelyou like. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Like" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Norwegian (appreciate, equal, like), Pidgin English (to like), Swedish (equal, match, peer).

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Modern Usage: Like

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So this is what the inside of a courtroom looks like. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

It was just like this one time here (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

Got to love the Lord for making things like that (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

So, do you like to party (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

It's like having four pens in one (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.)

Lyrics

You like romantic movies (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One)

Well i feel like makin (Feel Like Making Love; performing artist: Bad Company)

Ride like the wind to be free again (Ride Like the Wind; performing artist: Christopher Cross)

Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come ? Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true See if it's true Now I've lost the thing That I had to say I know you're no good that way You send me, you wanted this, too Take your heart I think I get it now Well I just can't prolong Somehow I'll really do See if it's true Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' Won't you come Cause I've been waitin' See if it's true See if it's true Time was we'd drop out everything And there was a peace you'd bring But you didn't wanna go Talked about the hell we'd both been through Seemed like the thing to do Like something I needed to know See if it's true See if it's true (Seemed Like the Thing to Do; performing artist: Dino)

'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast)

Clever

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. (references; author: Bob Hope)

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing (references; author: unknown)

Man who drive like hell bound to get there. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Take Me Like Wow (1974)

Thieves Like Us (1974)

Would I Ever Like to Work (1974)

Like Other People (1973)

A Day Like Tomorrow (1973)

Song Titles

Will His Love Be Like His Rum (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Feels Like The First Time (performing artist: Foreigner)

Waiting For A Girl Like You (performing artist: Foreigner)

Tell It Like It Is (performing artist: Heart)

I Like The Way (The Kissing Game) (performing artist: Hi-Five)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Like

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Needlecraft Sets Consisting of Woven Fabric and Yarn for Making Rugs and the Like for Retail Sale: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat--Not a Sour Puss (reference)

  • Putt Like the Pros: Dave Pelz's Scientific Way to Improving Your Stroke, Reading Greens, and Lowering Your Score (reference)

  • Play Like a Man Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success That Women Need to Learn (reference)

  • Eat Yourself Thin Like I Did!: Quick and Easy Low Carb Cookbook (reference)

  • Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Seems Like Old Times (reference)

  • Kidsongs - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Like

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Like

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Kaposi's sarcoma like lesion in athymic mouse - nude mouse. This lesion was induced by metabolically active cells 4x10(6) injected subcutaneously. Arrow indicated positive result. Left side was injected with fixed cells. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Pharmacist is preparing cd4, which is a new treatment for AIDS and ARC (AIDS-related complex). cd4 is administered intravenously by a syringe pump, in the foreground, which is programmed to infuse cd4 over a 24-hour period. cd4 acts like a decoy and blocks the cd4 receptors on the t4 cell, thus preventing the HIV virus from infecting the cell. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Ground Squirrels like this Spotted Ground Squirrel, S. spilosoma, have been involved in plague epizootics. Credit: CDC.

Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC.

Just when it seemed like the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories ... Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope reveals a rainbow of colors in this dying star, called IC 4406. Like many ... Credit: NASA.

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

An overhead view like the one above, but different wavelengthsare assigned to the red, green and blue channels to make the hurricaneappear red. Credit: NASA.

The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below. Credit: NASA.

Passage to Alligator Bay, Everglades - looks like Pirates of the Caribbean Party off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Like
 

"Hot Like Fire" by Mary Day
Commentary: "A Campfire!."
"Do you like oysters?" by Rene Drost
Commentary: "A few baskets with oysters on a shelf."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Like".

PlayCaption
Short piece which may have been heard on television shows like Miami Vice circa 1980's.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Like

AuthorQuotation

Blaise Pascal

We like to be deceived.

Epicurus

Live like a god among men.

George Herbert

Was ever grief like mine?

Homer

Words like winter snowflakes.

Marcus T. Cicero

Like associates with like.

Miguel De Cervantes

He had a face like a blessing.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing succeeds like success.

St. Augustine

Love, and do what you like.

The Atlanta

Covers Dixie Like the Dew.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Like

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

In like manner it shall be done concerning aids from the city of London. (reference)

John Locke

1690

This is in effect no more than to bid them first be slaves, and then to take care of their liberty; and when their chains are on, tell them, they may act like freemen. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Constitution

1791

If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. (reference)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

It spread like an epidemic. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace. (reference)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

In McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, supra, the Court, in requiring that a Negro admitted to a white graduate school be treated like all other students, again resorted to intangible considerations: "…his ability to study, to engage in discussions and exchange views with other students, and, in general, to learn his profession." (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1926)

Roe v. Wade

1973

State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Like

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

I like him very much

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear

Three Voices

Carroll, Lewis

And darkly fell her answer dread Upon his unresisting head, Like half a hundredweight of lead

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

The sound resounded through the house like thunder

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Life, said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

For, we repeat, men like advancement

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

"If they all felt like this in the morning it was probably a relief."

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Like

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The brain is like a committee of experts. (references)

The hiatus itself acts like a second valve. (references)

It may also help with symptoms like hot flashes. (references)

Business

Greece like other E.U. countries has a market economy. (references)

Greece, like other E.U. countries, has a market economy. (references)

Like the U.S., France has a long history of franchising. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Health care services, like education, remained seriously inadequate for the nation's children. (references)

Panama

The Minister of Youth, Women, Children, and Family Affairs acts much like an ombudsman, and the office proposes and reviews laws and monitors government performance. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Secondary school entrance is restricted by the difficulty of the exam, which changes each year, and the Government's ability to provide sufficient spaces for all who would like to attend. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nepal

Private radio stations, like print media, practice self-censorship. (references)

South Africa

Some journalists express concern that the Government would like to control the media. (references)

Ghana

Government agencies, like CHRAJ, have been campaigning actively against Trokosi for years. (references)

Discrimination

Burkina Faso

Minority ethnic groups, like the majority Mossi, are represented in the inner circles of the Government, and government decisions do not favor one group over another. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

They like to meet key officers of the foreign firm. (references)

Singapore

Singaporeans like to try newer and more exotic fruit. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

Prosecutors, like the courts, are organized into offices at the district, regional, and republic levels. (references)

Argentina

On one occasion, when she picked up Gonzalez at the police station, she was told that next time he would be turned over to her in a casket like her other son. (references)

Canada

Provincial authorities publicly stated that he would receive no preferable treatment because he was a police officer, and that his case would be handled like any other crime. (references)

Indigenous People

Cameroon

Local Pygmies along the proposed path of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline continue to complain that they have not been compensated fairly for their land like their Bantu neighbors. (references)

Nicaragua

Like many armed groups operating since the end of the civil war, the Yatama groups combine banditry with a genuine desire to force the Government to devote more resources to their underdeveloped region. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Like Ahmadis many Christians complain about the difficulty that their children face in gaining admission to government schools and colleges, a problem they attribute to discrimination. (references)

Political Economy

Peru

Like the President, they serve five-year terms. (references)

Poland

Freedom Union (UW): like AWS, UW has its origins in the Solidarity movement. (references)

Brazil

States are organized like the federal government, with three branches of government. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

The new Council, like the old, advises the President on a range of issues and consists of presidentially appointed members chaired by a former prime minister. (references)

Trade

Trinidad

Most financing, like most investment, comes from overseas sources. (references)

Panama

The firm receives its goods and stores them like any other company there. (references)

Travel

Egypt

The Egyptian market, like anywhere in the Middle East, is a changing one. (references)

Moldova

The basic infrastructure institutions like airports and markets usually stay open. (references)

Spain

Theft of small items like radios, luggage, cameras, briefcases, and even cigarettes from parked cars is a common problem. (references)

Women

Korea

Like men, working-age women must work. (references)

Colombia

Sex tourism exists to a limited extent, especially in coastal cities like Cartagena and Barranquilla. (references)

Colombia

Rape and other acts of violence against women are pervasive in society, and like other crimes, seldom are prosecuted successfully. (references)

Worker Rights

Albania

Police often treated trafficked women like criminals rather than victims. (references)

Zambia

The IRC, like other courts, has inadequate resources to address all cases before it in a timely manner. (references)

Zambia

The ZCTU is operated democratically and, like its constituent unions, is independent of any political party and the Government. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he heard from afar Ancestral voices prophesying war. One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Like

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Ann Richards

Well, Gephardt, interestingly enough is going to look like he's doing pretty well because Iowa is that early primary.

Celine Dion

I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there.

Dennis Miller

In other words, just like our public schools but not as heavily armed.

Laura Bush

We discussed early on, months ago what we wanted the Christmas to be like, and I thought this would be a really pretty hallway.

Marlo Thomas

Look at that face, just like when you were in high school. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a cheerleader in trouble.

Mary Tyler Moore

There are a few people like that, but I'm not one of them. I find it very difficult. But I'm never one to shirk a challenge.

Paul McCartney

Half an hour, something like that. If you're really lucky, they just arrive and you kind of just write them down.

Rush Limbaugh

Money is like water.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Like

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy, for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates.

Franklin Pierce

1853-1857Wise counsels, like those which gave us the Constitution, prevailed to uphold it.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country, wherever they may be, we meet again, as upon a like moment four years ago, and again you have witnessed my solemn oath of service to you.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963President, I should like to say clearly once more that we could not remain indifferent to this.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Tonight I have spoken of some of the goals I should like to see America reach.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989With bravery like yours, Shelby, America need never fear for our future.

George Bush

1989-1993Great nations like great men must keep their word.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001There are millions like her all across America.

George W. Bush

2001-2005It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Like

"Like" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 72.91% of the time. "Like" is used about 149,321 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Preposition (except "of")72.91%108,87389
Lexical Verb (infinitive)15.83%23,639371
Lexical Verb (base form)6.77%10,104925
Adverb (general)2.22%3,3142,884
Adjective (general or positive)1.76%2,6323,476
Conjunction (subordinating)0.46%6899,633
Noun (singular)0.03%4550,900
                    Total100.00%149,321N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Like

The following table summarizes the usage of "like" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LikeLast name30030,081
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Like

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "like".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ChimhamN/ABiblical

Like to them

MicaiahN/ABiblical

Who is like to God?

MicajahN/ABiblical (Variant)

Who is like to God?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Like

Expressions using "like": act like a fool ad like one possessed adhere like a remora adhere like Dejanira's shirt albanian leather shoes like moccasins and the like and things like that another one like her another one like him any way you like Anything like anyway you like as like as not as like as two peas as you like as you like best be like be like a bear with a sore head be like a cat on hot bricks be like a dumpling be like a dying duck in a thunderstorm be like a stuffed dummy be like buridan's ass be like each other be off like a shot be packed like sardines be selling like hot cakes bear smth. like a man become like become like silver bestride the world like a colossus blank like fine roll bleed like a pig blow like a grampus bob up like a cork burn like a tinderbox carry on like a madman carry on like the devil chatter like a magpie cling to smb. like a bur clustered like grapes collapse like a house of cards come out like come when you like corpse like cry like a child curse like a trooper curtain like deuce! like hell! die like a dog die like flies do not look at me like that do the like do you like it? do you like this? dog like done up like a dog's dinner draw smb. like a magnet drink like a fish drop like a stone drop like flies drop smth. like a hot potato dust like eat like a bird eat like a horse eat like a pig egg like exactly like fall like dominoes feel like feel like a fish out of water feel like a giant refreshed feel like a wet rag feel like doing smth. feel like it fight like cat and dog fight like dogs fight like kilkenny cats fit like a glove float like a balloon flour like for all the world like go down like ninepins go like a bat out of hell go like clockwork go like lightning go like the clappers go like this with your left hand go out like a lamb go out like a light go over like a lead balloon go round like a horse in a mill grin like a cheshire cat grip like a vice Had like hair like hang like a millstone round one's neck hate like poison have eyes like a hawk he behaves like a richman he felt like it. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "like": like-a, like-as-not, like-charged, like-could, like-faced, like-feathered, like-for, like-for-like, like-i, like-insurance, like-it-is, like-minded, like-minded people, like-mindedness, like-minds, like-search, like-sexed, like-sounding, like-spending, like-to, like-unlike, like-what, like-with-like, like-you.

Ending with "like": action-like, active-region-like, adrenaline-like, adult-like, aids-like, amoeba-like, andf-like, animal-like, ant-like, ape-like, apple-like, arc-like, arrow-like, bar-like, barn-like, barrack-like, bat-like, bead-like, beak-like, bear-like, bee-like, beetle-like, blade-like, block-like, boat-like, bowl-like, box-like, brush-like, buddha-like, bull-like, butterfly-like, buzzard-like, cage-like, canute-like, canyon-like, car-like, cartoon-like, castle-like, cathedral-like, cave-like, cement-like, chain-like, chameleon-like, chimp-like, chisel-like, christ-like, church-like, claw-like, cliff-like, clove-like, clown-like, club-like, coffin-like, commando-like, computer-like, cone-like, corpse-like, corridor-like, cowboy-like, cow-like, crab-like, crow-like, crust-like, cup-like, cycad-like, daisy-like, dance-like, death-like, desert-like, dinosaur-like, dog-like, dome-like, down-like, dragon-like, dream-like, drug-like, drum-like, duck-like, earth-like, ec-like, eel-like, egf-like, elephant-like, elfin-like, english-like, factory-like, family-like, fanfare-like, fang-like, feather-like, fender-like, fern-like, ferret-like, finger-like, fish-like, fjord-like, flap-like, flare-like, flower-like, fortress-like, friedmann-like, frond-like, gazelle-like, gelada-like, gem-like, ghost-like, gibson-like, gland-like, glass-like, gnome-like, goat-like, god-like, goose-like, gorilla-like, granite-like, granule-like, grass-like, grid-like, gull-like, gypsy-like, hamster-like, hangar-like, harrier-like, hawk-like, heron-like, hog-like, home-like, hook-like, horse-like, human-like, hut-like, immunoglobulin-like, infantile-like, insect-like, janus-like, jelly-like, jet-like, jewel-like, knife-like, lace-like, ladder-like, lady-like, language-like, lark-like, laser-like, law-like, leaf-like, leg-like, lemming-like, life-like, light-like, like-for-like, lily-like, limb-like, limpet-like, lizard-like, lobe-like, lover-like, ltp-like, Macintosh-like, Mac-like, madonna-like, mafia-like, magpie-like, mainframe-like, mammal-like, man-like, mantra-like, mask-like, mat-like, maze-like, medusa-like, membrane-like, mind-like, minuet-like, mirror-like, monkey-like, monk-like, moon-like, moorhen-like, morphine-like, moth-like, motif-like, mouse-like, mousse-like, mucus-like, museum-like, needle-like, net-like, nuthatch-like, object-like, oib-like, ostrich-like, owl-like, owner-like, ox-like, paddle-like, pagoda-like, parchment-like, parkinson-like, park-like, parrot-like, pc-like, pea-like, peat-like, peg-like, pheasant-like, phoenix-like, pigeon-like, pig-like, pistol-like, plate-like, plover-like, plum-like, point-like, policeman-like, porridge-like, pouch-like, priest-like, prison-like, rasp-like, reed-like, rhino-like, ribbon-like, rib-like, ring-like, rock-like, rod-like, root-like, rope-like, sack-like, sac-like, sail-like, sausage-like, scale-like, scissor-like, scythe-like, serpent-like, shark-like, sheet-like, shell-like, shield-like, shrew-like, shrimp-like, skull-like, slab-like, slot-like, slug-like, snake-like, snipe-like, space-like, spade-like, spear-like, sphinx-like, spider-like, spine-like, sponge-like, spreadsheet-like, spring-like, Spud-u-like, squid-like, squirrel-like, star-like, starling-like, state-like, statesman-like, statue-like, stick-like, stilt-like, stork-like, string-like, such-like, sucker-like, swallow-like, sylph-like, tank-like, tardis-like, temple-like, tent-like, tern-like, terrier-like, thread-like, throne-like, time-like, toad-like, tooth-like, toy-like, tramp-like, trance-like, tree-like, tube-like, tundra-like, tunnel-like, unix-like, vampire-like, velvet-like, vice-like, village-like, virus-like, vulture-like, waif-like, war-like, wart-like, wasp-like, wave-like, whip-like, windows-like, wing-like, witch-like, wolf-like, womb-like, workman-like, worm-like, wraith-like, wt-like, yeast-like, zombie-like.

Containing "like": African Swine Fever-Like Viruses, avoid-like-the-plague, Enterochromaffin-like Cells, Hepatitis C-Like Viruses, i-can-do-anything-i-want-any-time-i-want-and-make-you-like-it, i'm-just-an-ordinary-bloke-like-you, in peasant-like manner, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein 2, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor Binding Protein 1, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding Proteins, Insulin-Like Growth-Factor-Binding-Protein 5, insulin-like-growth, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding Protein 6, looks-like-abstract-art, Neoplastic Endocrine-Like Syndromes, Nonsuppressible Insulin-Like Activity, Shiga-Like Toxin I, Shiga-Like Toxin II, they-don't-make-'em-like-that-any-more, Thogoto-Like Viruses, tram-like-a-train, well-if-you-don't-like-it-that's-all-right, Wooster-like-oddity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Like

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

like pimp

2,971

i like big butt

287

glue like

2,914

like mike

270

bend it like beckham

1,916

dead like me

265

like stone

1,120

like i love you

263

glue like lyrics paul sean

1,048

someone like you

262

moment like this

774

body like nude

253

smell like teen spirit

556

just like a pill

252

like love wo

555

life or something like it

241

come doing just like people see thousand

529

like love lyrics whoa

239

glue like lyrics

459

times like these

232

like lyrics pimp

452

smell like teen spirit lyrics

230

like my nude photo

415

like water for chocolate

215

body like

399

like lyrics moment this

206

like lyrics stone

394

like lyrics these times

203

glue like paul sean

386

celebrity look a like

197

like love lyrics mya whoa

383

a girl like you

191

act gonna like that

366

fighter foo like lyrics these times

191

i like you

336

like love lyrics mya wo

187

like

330

banner david like lyrics pimp

168

like love whoa

319

like love mya whoa

162
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Like

Language Translations for "like"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

waardeer (appreciate), soos (as, how, such, such as, what), so lyk (as, how, such, such as, what), lief wees vir (appreciate), hou van (appreciate), hoe (as, how, in what way, such, such as, what, wherefore), as (as, ash, cinder, how, if, provided, provided that, such, such as, than, what, when). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care, care for, choose, do with, fancy, intend, love, please, seek, take a fancy to, want, wish), si (as, for, how, qua, si, such as). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مماثل (analogous, comparable, identical, similar), ‏مضارع (present, present tense), ‏مجانس (akin, identical, namesake, similar), ‏مال إلي, ‏مال (assets, be inclined, bend, bent, cant, capital, chattel, coins, estate, feel sympathy for, funds, gold, incline, lean, pelf, possessions, property, purse, shekels, skew, slant, slope, sympathize with, tilt, tip), ‏مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), ‏مشابه (analogous, comparable, fellow, hassling, similar), ‏نفس الشىء, ‏ود (amiability), ‏حب (attach, cereal, liking, lose one's heart, love, passion, pip, seed), ‏تماثل (community, homogeneity, identification, identify, identity, likeness, oneness, resemble, sameness, self identification, similarity, symmetry, sympathize, uniformity), ‏تشابه (bear, correspondence, likeness, look alike, parity, propinquity, resemblance, resemble, similarity), ‏شبيه ب, ‏شبيه (parallel), ‏شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, feature, imagine, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

gustar (to like). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

uñtasiña (to look like), mallt'aña (to like). (various references)

   

Basque

  

gustatzen. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ukutemwa (to like). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

ihtsiiyi'tsi (to like). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вероятно (belike, likely, presumably, presumedly, probably), подобен (agnate, akin, alike, allied to, analogous, bastard, comparable, connatural, ditto, homo-, homoeo-, kindred, parallel, similar, sister, such, suchlike), подобен човек (likes), подобно на (on the order of), почти (about, almost, approximately, half, near, nearly, next to, nigh, on, practically, say, something like, virtually, well nigh), приличащ на, еднакъв (alike, coequal, equable, equal, even, identic, identical, invariable, level, one, same, self, twin, unaffected, uniform), желая (desiderate, desire, list, want, will, wish, would), насмалко (narrowly, well nigh), нещо подобно (analogue), нещо еднакво, нещо равно, искам (ask, call for, choose, demand, desire, list, please, postulate, request, require, seek, tax, want, will, wilt, wish, would), обичам (affect, be fond of, care, care for, enjoy, love, taste), сякаш (as though), възможно (possibly), както (as, how), като (after, as, for, on the order of, qua, such as, when), като че ли (as if, quasi), типичен за, такъв човек (likes), тъй да се каже (kind of, quasi), характерен за, харесва ми се, харесвам (affect, cotton, dig, fancy, relish, take a fancy to), равен (concurrent, equal, even, fellow, flat, flush, level, on a par with, peer, smooth, stricken, tantamount), сходен (akin, alike, analogous, cognate, congruent, congruous, osculant, similar), някак (kind of, someway). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

(as, such as, yes). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

magustohan (to like). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

para ma guaiya (to like). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

, (as, if, to seem), (category, class, jaw, kind, palate, similar, to resemble, typ